{"id":65706,"date":"2018-01-18T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65706"},"modified":"2018-01-16T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:19:36","slug":"unarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65706","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unarmed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In more than a few self-defense shooting cases, from Trayvon Martin to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/witness-to-a-killing-rochester-teen-said-i-dare-you-and-fellow-motorist-pulled-trigger\/469386443\/\">this week&#8217;s episode in Rochester<\/a>, people who oppose &#8211; and just don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>get\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; the right of self-defense point at the episode and smile like a toddler than just filled their diaper and chant &#8220;He was\u00a0<em>unarmed<\/em>!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So was the perp in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policeone.com\/off-duty\/articles\/468495006-man-charged-with-single-punch-murder-of-calif-deputy\/\">this case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the fender-bender, Falce and a man police identified as Alonzo Leron Smith got out of their cars, exchanged words and motioned at each other. Smith then delivered a single punch to the face and Falce fell backward, his head hitting the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that he was knocked unconscious almost immediately and he never did regain consciousness,&#8221; San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Minnesota in 2016, among the 80-odd homicides were at least five &#8220;one punch kills&#8221; &#8211; punches where the victim fatally smacked their head, or suffered a fatal aneurysm or concussion from the punch itself.<\/p>\n<p>Punches and kicks kill ten times as many people as &#8220;assault rifles&#8221; in an average year &#8211; 500 to somewhere around 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In more than a few self-defense shooting cases, from Trayvon Martin to this week&#8217;s episode in Rochester, people who oppose &#8211; and just don&#8217;t\u00a0get\u00a0&#8211; the right of self-defense point at the episode and smile like a toddler than just filled their diaper and chant &#8220;He was\u00a0unarmed!&#8221;. So was the perp in this case: After the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65707,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706\/revisions\/65707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}